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// Chapter 3: The Test of Strength (Twinkleshine's POV) 
// Story: The Canterlot four and the Friendship Games 
// by Superdogz1999 
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The sun rises over the city with it's crisp golden shine that every single thing that is in it's path would be heated. I was a big groggy after what happened yesterday, but I wouldn't let my pink curly hair give up on that. As I rise from my bed and change into my Purple, blue and yellow uniform, I thought to myself "Should I try to do the strength test today, I mean that the tryouts are in two days and my friends would not agree with me." I collected my bag and walked out the door onto the street that caused me to climb down the biggest hill in the area.

I would meet my three best friends at the bus stop that is a short walk from my house. On one end of the road there were a few trees and on the other side there was the cafe. I asked "Hey Minuette and Twinkleshine! Should we try to walk to school, since I promised to buy you lunch?"

Minuette replied "Sure Twinkleshine, but it would seem strange to the other students that we walked to school instead of heading on the bus."

Lemon Hearts replied "I agree with Minuette and you Twinkleshine have to buy us lunch because of our Tennis Victory yesterday. Besides, what would possibly go wrong?"

I explained "If the line at the cafe is too busy, then we may be late and you all know how Principal Cinch hates students arriving late to class."

Moondancer yelled "We got to be very quick if we want to make it on time. I do not want to miss the chance of studying in the Morning."

So then we hurried along the long, grey and abrasive sidewalk towards the cafe. The cafe was on the bottom of a very tall and grey skyscraper. The inside was decorated in red with flowers all over the wall. The tables were made of cedar and were polished to attract the customers. We then waited in a very small line with only a few people whom I presume that are going to work. 

I asked "So girls, what do you want?"

Minuette answered "I would like a chicken sandwich with tuna fish salad."

Lemon Hearts answered "I would like the roast beef sandwich with extra fries."

I approached the counter with the money and said "Hi there. I'm Twinkleshine and I would like A chicken sandwich with tuna fish salad and a roast beef sandwich with extra fries. How much will that be?"

The cashier replied "35 Bits."

I actually have that kind of money, I have a job of cleaning up the streets once or twice a week and they actually pay very well unlike most street cleaners who had to work for a few weeks to save 35 Bits or whatever currency they use. That 35 Bits which is the remainder of their money from food, electricity and other utilities that are required. Anyway I actually hand the money over to the cashier like I would normally do and gave her a 5 Bit tip.

We waited like 10 minutes for our sandwiches, but it does not bother me as me and my friends would sit there and talk the minutes away.

Minuette planned "Girls, I know what we are going to do today. As Moondancer would usually take a lot of books each and every day, I was thinking that we should use those books to test our strength."

Moondancer asked "Why do you want to use those books to test your strength Minuette?"

Minuette answered "It's to train for the tryouts on Friday. Besides all the fucking sporty shitheads will beat us in the tryouts if we do not test our strength. If we are beaten, then we will not go on to represent our school in the Friendship Games. Besides we have held the trophy for years and we are not taking any shit from those Canterlot High dorks. How come that lame school have two complete bitches named Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon who are richer than us, but they still go to Canterlot because their fathers are cheapsakes."

I replied "Just like Mr Krabs from Spongebob?"

Minuette replied "Exactly! We are not giving up, we will achieve, we will represent our school in the Friendship Games."

Hearing every word that Minuette said makes me feel more proud in myself and it makes my school proud. With that, we could change from being the most nerdy group of girls, to Crystal Prep's best female athletes. I know that you should not give up on anything as you control your life and you mean it. I also know that you gotta work hard to achieve your goals and that hard work pays off.

Our sandwiches would then arrive and I would put them in both Minuette's and Lemon Hearts' lunchboxes. Their lunchboxes match their hair and skin and were made out of plastic. The sandwiches were Chicken and Tuna Fish for Minuette and Roast Beef. There were even fries that went with Lemon Hearts' sandwich and she ordered extra of them.

We would then try to get to school on time. No problem if you're Minuette, but the rest of us are slower at running. But there is a positive to this, that running would help us prepare for the tryouts, we really want to pass the tryouts and make it to the Friendship Games, but look at this Pink Haired Crystal Prep Girl which is me. I am seriously bad at running, but I have to make it to school or I will be in Trouble. We ran as fast as possible and it took about 4 blocks to arrive, many people were shocked about us but I am not letting that distract me. Eventually we arrived at the school with moments to spare, moments to spare Sweet Celestia.

I would explain "Look everyone, even though we have made it. I would like everyone to meet here as soon as school ends instead of the Library. We are to go to my house and collect some books for our strength test."

6 hours has passed since I said that phase, we would eventually meet at the front door ready to go to my house. The walk there was really hard and tough as I lived on a hill that is halfway between the City and Canterlot High. Exactly halfway! You know what the tough part is? Getting up the hill alone, the hill was higher than the skyscapers in the City. 

We would eventually reach the front door of the 1930s art deco style . The door was made of some sort of wood, possibly maple and it was painted red. The outside was painted Pink like my hair, it was probably my father's way of saying thanks to me. I open the door to find my little sister Cosmic Spark waving at me. She has Purple skin and hair of Orange, Blue and Green. She is also wearing a dress that matches her hair and on that dress were 3 yellow stars that in the pony world would be her Cutie Mark. She greeted my friends with a smile. So we eventually got to the Library of my house, where we sat down and dicussed stuff.

Minuette asked "Why doesn't Cosmic Spark go to Crystal Prep?"

I answered "She used to, but after she was picked on by a group of those sporty bullies I decided to ask my mom about relocating her to Canterlot High. She said yes to Cosmic being transferred to Canterlot. Don't you know that this is halfway between the two schools and one of the highest spots in all of the city of Canterlot? Anyway we have to get a lot of books and we need to place them into a wagon."

Lemon Hearts asked "What type of wagon do we need? I mean that we can't take Cosmic's."

I replied "We are going to use my old wagon that is still in my bedroom as a means of transporting items to other parts of the house."

Moondancer replied "According to my calculations, the wagon would collapse if pulled on for too long and if the load of the wagon was too heavy."

So them after Moondancer has talked calculations, the rest of us would wander to my room where the wagon is next to my bed. We take the wagon then we walk back to the Library where we take a lot of books, more than the amount that Moondancer would read a single week. We would take the wagon outside.

I announced "Whoever can get the Wagon over to that tree over there and back the fastest here will receive a muffin."

Minuette replied "A muffin? Is my name Derpy Hooves? But I will happily take the offer."

I went first in the race, I was actually stronger than I thought as I ran at a slower pace than when I ran to school earlier that day. I eventually reached the tree and turned around, retracing my steps from before in the opposite direction. Before too long I reached the Start Point. The time it took was about 7 Minutes and 32 Seconds.

Minuette would go next, unlike me she was not as strong and she kept struggling to reach the tree, in which she eventually did. She would try to turn around at a slow pace as she struggled back to the start point. It took here 21 Minutes and 29 Seconds to do her part of the training.

Lemon Hearts was the last as Moondancer was studying in my Library. Her stength ability was about in between of mine and Minuette's. She was walking fine, but she was struggling just a little bit. As we watched her pull to the tree we cheered on her and on the way back we shown our support for her by holding up banners with her name in it. Serveal Minuetes later she got back to the Starting point and her time was clocked at 13 Minutes and 47 Seconds.

I announced "The person who pulled the wagon to the tree and back the quickest is me of course. Don't you know that I am the strong one of the group, but I made all three of us and Moondancer muffins because I do not want anyone to miss out." We eventually walked back to the house and ate our delicious chocolaty muffins.

A few minutes later after my friends have got home, I rushed to my desk and I wrote in my Diary
Today has been an extraordinary day. I gave my friends so more trust at the cafe. Minuette has motivated me to keep going in my life. I also brang my friends to my house to help practice for the Friendship Games tryouts on Friday. I was the strongest of my friends. But I hope from you that I would try my best in the next two days before the tryouts. Even though Cosmic did not get involved in this. I would still praise her and I hope she would represent her school in the Friendship Games. Yours thankfully, Twinkleshine